The Christmas cheer has subsided and now New Year’s winks at us from around the next corner with its hats and noisemakers, bubbly and midnight kisses. It is also the rebirth of the quiet time...

Roberta Kirn finds songs wherever she goes, a wandering minstrel for music as part of her Song Exchange Project. Her method is to travel the world where she knows people and have that person seek out...

On Memorial Wharf in Edgartown a tower of lobster pots has appeared for the last five years around the holidays, gathered, built and decorated by Sandy Fisher to resemble a Christmas tree, albeit a...

Peter Simon, a man who hugged first and talked later, who lived a barefoot life while also chronicling with his camera the biggest names in music from the 1960s onward along with the protest...

From my perch on a park bench I sit and watch my daughter age. We are at the playground near the farmers’ market and Pickle (her nickname) and a friend are taking turns at a baby swing. They...

Paul Dawson is looking at death, again. He is 88 years old and one could say that death knocks a bit louder at that advanced age. Most would be inclined to add another lock to the door, pull the...

Scott Frank is seated outside Larsen’s on Dutcher Dock in Menemsha eating a bowl of clam chowder. The sky is big and gray, and the wind has picked up. He wears a baseball cap and a thick denim...

Slammy B and the Electric Snakes made their public debut in late June at their West Tisbury School eighth grade graduation. Not the after party but the graduation ceremony itself, where young Owen...

The words are on the page, but for Jennifer Joanou that is just the first step. In fact, by the time her creative process is done the words may no longer be visible. But they will be there, a...

The oxen are in the barn and the ferris wheel is resting high up in the blue sky. The games of chance stand in a row, the tilt-a-whirl remains tilted and a giant bounce house tiger sits at the ready...